
A Military Sealift Command ship would haul them overseas to another port railhead.Ĭloser to the battle zone, logisticians would transfer the tanks from trains to heavy equipment transporters-in essence, really big trucks. The tanks would ride on a train from their base to a port.

Army would lean on several modes of transportation to get an armored brigade equipped with M-1A2SEPv3s from its home base to a European battlefield. That makes it easier to move to and around a battlefield. As a tank power, the United States is second only to Russia with its roughly 13,000 T-72s, T-80s, T-90s and other types.īut Russia’s tanks are lighter than America’s tanks. The service has ordered around 300 M-1A2SEPv3s from General Dynamics GD.


Army possesses around 6,000 M-1s, including 1,500 new-generation M-1A2s. The SEPv3 works in the cold-a prerequisite for winter operations in eastern Europe, the most likely place where the Army’s heavy brigades might deploy for combat against a high-tech foe.
